
The Inventor and the Tycoon
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One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.
Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Floodwaters
- Preface
- Part One
- Chapter 1. The Stanford Entertainment
- Chapter 2. The Yellow Jacket Murder
- Chapter 3. God of the Sun
- Chapter 4. Harnessing the Elephant
- Chapter 5. The Photographer
- Chapter 6. Flora Downs
- Chapter 7. Occident
- Part Two
- Chapter 8. Harry Larkyns
- Chapter 9. The Octopus
- Chapter 10. Little Harry
- Chapter 11. King Eadweard
- Chapter 12. Marital Rights
- Chapter 13. The Grocer
- Chapter 14. The Immigrant
- Chapter 15. The Trial
- Chapter 16. The Speculator
- Chapter 17. Verdicts
- Part Three
- Chapter 18. The Horse Lovers
- Chapter 19. Prestidigitator
- Chapter 20. Motion, Study
- Chapter 21. Celluloid
- Chapter 22. The Flood
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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